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Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Portland-based Hyun Jung Jung creates compelling stories as a textile artist and a color and materials designer at Adidas Originals. Her aesthetic is an effusive blend of pop culture, gaming, brands, cartoons, and social media. Textiles, she says, are deeply engraved in everyday life. “The clothes you wear, the sofa you sit on, the curtains in your room, the wallpaper in the house… textiles have so much potential to add excitement to people’s lives.”
“Properties of fiber, color, material, structure, shape, tension, thickness, size, finishing—these are some examples of the knowledge that a person needs to create textiles. Becoming a textiles designer seemed like a way for me to introduce good design to people who think they don’t care about art and design.”